Richard Feynman - The Pleasure Of Finding Things Out

[undergroundjackal]

knowing that i know nothing helps me understand the things that i do not know

[NOC137]

If you enjoyed this video you should read "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"

[aigg]

Anyone else stuck with a feeling of being totally inadequate? Time to lower the bar just a tad...sigh. But what an interesting listen!

[geq3102]

Pretty cool dude :-)

[njroode]

I love hearing Feynman speak via youtube. Never knew he existed, or who he is, what he did. How great it is to see someone fearless of doubt and uncertainty, suspicious of uniforms. Feynman died in 1988, 12 years after I was born. This 47 minute clip inspires me to go and buy Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman.

[mc18601]

The new era of science that is easily accessed and shared is upon us, we can now see the genius up close if only we could have seen Galileo, Plato Newton Einstein and many of the others who were ahead of their time in this medium, its a privilege to see Mr feynman on this human level unrehearsed not just a series of paragraphs on a page as interesting as they are. If human existence continues many millennia what a privilege it will be for those looking back to see the person Richard feynman

[JhericFury]

What an inspiration, so great with words. Unusual for a physicist.

[WickeDFate4]

@JhericFury Equally unusual for all of us.

[Squirlol]

@JhericFury Unusual for average physicists, but somehow almost ubiquitous among the really great ones.

[nubl37]

lost in the mysterious universe without purpose

[1sanjaygir1]

Thumbs up!! if you like listening to physicists :D

[mahermali]

awesome guy

[SaM3BMW]

Thank you very much for uploading this.

As Carl Sagan very well put it, ‎"Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy. And in the final tolling it often turns out that the facts are more comforting than the fantasy. "

It is my goal to learn as much as I can about this universe before I leave it. It is what truly makes me happy.

[AQGOAT24]

Richard Feynman was an admirable man.

[propoetide]

I keep coming back to this. The way Feynman combined his great intellect with humility and good humor is an inspiration to me. He'll be missed, always.

[mkarnerfors]

22:00 "I'm just doing it for the fun of it".

This makes me think of when Heinrich Hertz did the first experiment to confirm Maxwell's hypothesis and make it into a scientific theory. He was asked what was the use of the experiment and these mysterious radio waves. Hertz said:

"It's of no use whatsoever [...] this is just an experiment that proves Maestro Maxwell was right - we just have these mysterious electromagnetic waves that we cannot see with the naked eye."

Little did he know...

[TheSchemu]

A great scientist and man!

Must have been awesome to have him as a lecturer at the university and listen to his unique way of explaining every week :)

@TennysonXII: Nowadays you can solve every equation approximatively, if you have an appropriate numerical method and a powerful computer, so in the meantime there are testable predictions from the theory he is talking about, i think quantum chromodynamics, and they also have been verified by experiment.

[whirlpoolzend]

What a lovely fella!

[2eelShmeal]

314 and zero? That's genius.

[Scorpil]

Not only Richard Feynman is a genius, turns out he had the most genius father of all times O_o

[prasoonpandey2000]

@Scorpil don't know about "genius" but ertainly he has to be one of the "greatest" dads "of all times"

[TheLordofShell]

50 minutes of masturbation

[Kiurrou]

The difference is that he worked on the atom not on kill people, do you think that frankling is the creator of Tazers?. Dont disrespect what you dont know. This man is an example of human freedom.

[TennysonXII]

That problem that he said he was working on, where he had the theory but couldn't use it to make predictions, did he or anyone else ever figure it out?

[Uriel1816]

This post is valuable. Training our children like Mr. Feynman was raised is important.

[QuantumChance]

Arguing for a god is useless. Statistically speaking, the chances you've chosen the correct religion are slim.

[LartenAndel]

@QuantumChance

Well, yeah, your chances are 0.

[QuantumChance]

@LartenAndel true. But even making that assumption, that its possible for a single religion to be 'right' - it doesn't help in choosing that 'right' one, not in the least. Its all as useless as tits on a nun.

[TheDouchesupreme]

@QuantumChance "useless as tits on a nun"...I lol'd.

[QuantumChance]

@LartenAndel i mean, even when you make the big assumptions religion wants you to make, it still never adds up. lol. This explains all the different denominations.

[babybluesnowden]

If there was a GOD? Why all the effort to stay concealed? If we knew for FACT god existed and there was ONE god wouldnt it then end all religious wars and infighting?

We could all live in peace and know the afterlife is there, we wouldnt, as a species fear death, we would embrace it as a part of our existence. 100 billion galaxies out there, traveling at 670 million MPH it takes about 4 years to reach the closest star. The universe was not created by any deity and neither were we.

[mbera11]

@babybluesnowden the universe is the deity. there's no external force, but we're all quite literally made out of the same material, us, our planet, those 100 billion galaxies, it's all the same thing. you're God, your cat is God, your dog is God, the shit that falls out of those asses is God.

religion isn't about knowing god, it's about imposing power and authority.

and we do know the afterlife is there. Your body decomposes, nitrogenates soil, assists the creation of new life. fine by me

[Lima547]

Thanks Richard for all contributions you've left to mankind!

[polyguo]

@cnestudy1 On the contrary, it is by studying the world around us that we come to know it's true beauty, it's true worth. Careful study allows us to see the world anew. I am awed by the simplest organisms in their infinite complexity as I am by crystalline materials and their regularity, things I may only appreciate through scientific knowledge and understanding.

[MCulpa]

I'm a Christian, and Feynman still offered me a beautiful perception of beauty.

I took that without compromising my Christianity in any way, at least in my opinion.

There's compromise to be found, and I don't understand why people in these comments never really reach that.

(Okay, yes I do, it's the internet.)

[CorkSkeptics]

Thanks for uploading, just a note he was a bit of a ladys man, complete opposite personallity to a mathematian like Paul Erdos.

[prasoonpandey2000]

anyone read "six easy pieces" or "feyman's lectures on physics"??if no,then just go out & buy one.it would be one of the few decisions you will never regret.provided(of course) if science interests you

[MrGabrielered]

@cnestudy1 atheists think they are smart, because their thinking is unbounded, they don't think that at certain point comes out a god saying "hey what you're doing? that' s unknowable, stop thinking my one-day creation!"

[WaltonSauce]

@cnestudy1

We don't 'think we are so smart' we use those words because there are no other words that do as good a job as them.

[gigisdad]

@cnestudy1 What fancy words is he using exactly? If you really listen to him, he actually explains things in a very childlike manner. If you didn't know who he was, I doubt anyone would get what a brilliant mind he had just by hearing him speak. He actually sounds sort of uneducated in the manner of his speech. But his understanding of the laws of nature were extraordinary. By no means your stereotypical scientist.

[ntipouan]

@cnestudy1 Check xkcd.com/877/ as well !

[ntipouan]

@cnestudy1 The scientist sees beauty in EVERYTHING !!! :DDDD

[Paggee]

This is a great interview, really thought inducing. Thanks a lot for uploading!

[lormendi]

@cnestudy1 Fancy words? Dude is a Nobel Prize winner in Quantum Electrodynamics. His vocabulary is just one small part of why he is so smart.

[bluehoneyorg]

@cnestudy1 There are a lot of smart atheists. A lot of dumb ones too...Are you suggesting that to be an atheist is to be unintelligent?

[TheScienceFoundation]

@cnestudy1 In my experience they usually are.

[GoVir4l]

@TheScienceFoundation – Political correctness aside, why are individuals like Feynman deemed as scientific heroes whilst the individuals who built Nazi training camps as condemned, unholy psychopaths?  I mean no disrespect to Feynman, but what’s the difference?

[TheScienceFoundation]

@GoVir4l 0/10

Your trolling is far too obvious.

[GoVir4l]

@TheScienceFoundation - Response: Fail.

[Bhikshu2]

@GoVir4l

Feynman didn't dissect people and sew them back together in unnatural ways. Feynman advanced human understanding of the world. Mengle and his associates only advanced the bounds of human cruelty.

[GoVir4l]

@Bhikshu2 - Yeah I guess you can't compare the yet unproven acts of some of the Nazis to killing nearly 70,000 innocent men women and children indiscriminately with one singular explosion.

[Bhikshu2]

@GoVir4l

"yet unproven"? Oh, boy, you're one of THOSE idiots.

No further point in communicating, you've forfeited all claim to intellectual integrity and honesty. Good day.

[noklarok]

@Bhikshu2 it is very hard to sew someone back together after they have been carbonated,, Feynman fanboys need to accept, like he does, that he had his part in the murder of thousands of humans.

[propoetide]

@noklarok I not only accept it; the obvious honesty with which he accepts his responsibilities in contributing to the bomb only adds to his authority, and my reverence.

[CognitiveScienceFr]

@noklarok Developping a weapon doesn't make you responsible for its use. Feynman was a moral man, like very few people are. Also, if USSR had the bomb before the USA, we might not be here today.

[noklarok]

@CognitiveScienceFr it is pure paranoid speculation to say that if USSR had had the bomb first "We" might not be here,, not very scientific of you. Obviously fear was a motivation for Feynman. However to say that you have no responsibility for what you help create shows that you do not understand what responsibility means. He is, in part, responsible for the horrendous ends of many a poor jap and he accepts this gracefully in this video. You should use your cognition more.

[dissol]

@noklarok I think (from reading his books) that he does accept that he had a part with the work he did at Los Alamos. But, as with all these things, this is multifaceted. One could argue that anyone in the Western world has benefitted from the murder of thousands. It did bring the war to a close. The threat of its use has stopped (so far) another World war. I wonder what the World would look like without that intervention?

[noklarok]

@dissol Obviously he cannot deny involvement ,, that would be silly. Indeed I might not even have been born if bombs had not nuked Japan. But Governments are often getting scientists to do shady things in the name of righteousness and 'freedom.' USA nuking Japan ensured USA as the new world number one power. Nuking Japan also helped USA gain control of Japan as a military base next to China. It did shut up those pesky Japs but it was still a horrific act of inhumanity. rest in pieces.

[dissol]

@noklarok It was an horrific act of inhumanity (and one that clearly troubled Feynman). But it was not the scientists who decided to use the technology, it was the politicians. The science of nuclear physics has also given us huge advances in medicine, which have also saved countless lives. No one can say if the nuking of Japan actually saved lives. If the war had dragged on, until the occupation of Japan, then how many would have died on both sides taking those islands?

[noklarok]

@GoVir4l he is a hero because he was on the winning side,, I suspect he will have been working with German Nazi scientists (codename:paper-clip people) around the time that he mentions (1943) since that is what they were recruited for. All German and Japanese immoral scientists were excused for their shady wartime 'experiments' in exchange for 'science'. Look up Unit 371, the jap scientists were shady as fuck, if that makes you feel better about Hiroshima + Nagasaki. USA now owns Japan

[TheScienceFoundation]

@cnestudy1 That understanding reality the way it is is much more interesting than persisting in fantasy and delusion.

[TheScienceFoundation]

@cnestudy1 Did you watch it?

[2dogarage]

I feel refreshed!

[proudfootz]

A great storyteller.

[nickharvey7]

It is a Great interview!

[shadman1911]

Great interview, great mind!

[saxmanchiro]

I look at a green leaf. I see a waxy coating(cuticle) that is waterproof because it is chemically a lipid. I then see just underneath the epidermal cells, a fantastic layer of cells full of chloroplasts, organelles that have their own DNA strand(circular and similar in genomics to photosynthetic bacteria) able to make glucose from carbon dioxide and water and sun, and shedding oxygen too. Then I see other little parts in their cells that are the same as ours(animal) in so many ways. Beautiful.

[SofaKingLoaded]

An awesome program, watched it many times.. and coincidentally just read "Surely you're joking.." again a few days ago. One of the most fascinating characters in Physics next to Dirac and Guth.. but by far the one you would have loved to have a few beers with.

[Desertphile]

Juice! Juice! Orange, juice!

[LordNapalm]

Amazing person. Up there with Sagan.